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You'll notice that as I'm dragging, you can see a black line that indicates exactly where the tab stop is going to be, exactly where those numbers are going to align to. Then, if you want to move it, just click and drag. Now, to add our first tab stop, all you have to do is click in the blank area along the top of this ruler. Instead it just kind of floats around the page. It can't do that if I don't see the top of the text frame. You don't technically need to do that, but I find it's useful to see the top of the text frame when I'm working with tabs, because now, when we go to the Type menu, and choose Tabs, the tab panel automatically snaps to the top of the text frame. We want to make sure we can see the top of the text frame up here.

Now, I'm going to zoom in by pressing Command or Control plus a couple of times. I'll double click to switch to the type tool, and select those paragraphs.

So the first thing we need to do is select all the paragraphs that we want to affect. Instead, you want to set up your own tab stop. You only want one tab character at a time. Now, you might be tempted to come in here and start adding additional tabs, but don't do it. And tab stops are set up every half inch across the text frame. The numbers don't line up, and that's because tabs, by default, always go to the nearest tab stop. So there's a problem here that I need to fix.

I often like working with these hidden characters turned on, because it shows exactly what's in my text frame, and that's especially true when I'm working with tabs, because I need to know where those tabs are to set them up right. And, between the words and the numbers, you see this double angle bracket, and that is a symbol for a tab character. Now we see all these little blue characters, like this blue paragraph symbol at the end of each line. Of course you can't, because tabs are invisible, right? But we can see them if we open the Type menu, and choose Show Hidden Characters, way down here at the bottom. Now I've placed tabs in this story to separate the numbers from the text, but I can't see the tab characters. We are in our long document file from the exercise files folder, and we're going to jump to a previous page by pressing Option or Alt, Page Up a couple of times.